Each of these sections is also available as a separate page with comment on, and often quotations from, the sites – click on the section headings. Note also that all these documents will open in a fresh window or tab. What may be the most informative texts for the reader fresh to all this are those marked with an asterisk *.

Do bear in mind, that although I have tried to select sites that offer clear and explicit comment, history and analysis, the discussion of poetry can rapidly get very technical and detailed, particularly when performed by academics or poets. A further problem with some sites is that they were often aimed at an audience of those involved already in this poetic culture, and are therefore assuming knowledge by the reader. A final warning is that a few of the pieces in (2) How the Poetry Can Be Read (and Written) do refer mainly to non-British poetry, but in a way that throws light on techniques and procedures used in contemporary innovative British poetry.

(a) Good Places to Look

* David Caddy: So Here We Are — essays on David Caddy's blog on Bill Griffiths, Thomas A Clark, Allen Fisher, Basil Bunting, Tom Raworth, John Kinsella, J H Prynne, Andrew Crozier, John Riley and David Gascoyne.

*Robert Sheppard, A History of the Other — this material is a series of blog entries, a little cumbersome to locate and navigate in order. The link here is to the analysis of these sections on the more detailed Great Works webpage.